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Livingstone has advised Info-Assure, a provider of cyber-security and information assurance services, on its sale to BSI.
Headquartered in Farnborough, UK, Info-Assure provides information assurance, security testing and incident response services to clients in the government, defence, policing, banking, retail and energy sectors. It is one of only eleven companies worldwide accredited by CESG, the information security arm of GCHQ.
Livingstone has worked closely with Martin Walsham and the team at Info-Assure for over two years as they rapidly grew the business into one of the UK’s foremost assurance, testing and response providers including introducing consultant finance director Richard
Seacoast Capital has held the closing of Seacoast Capital Partners IV with total commitments of USD239 million.
Limited partners include banks, private pension funds, private foundations, insurance companies, family offices and high net worth individuals.
Along with significant support from private limited partners, Seacoast received approval from the US Small Business Administration (SBA) for its fourth Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) license.
Over 85 per cent of investors from the firm’s 2012 vintage USD150 million fund, Seacoast Capital Partners III, returned to invest in Seacoast IV.
Consistent with the investment strategy of its predecessor funds, Seacoast IV
Abacus Group, a provider of hosted cloud IT solutions for alternative asset funds, has reported year-on-year growth of over 30 per cent up to the end of the third quarter of 2016.
The company’s employee count also exceeded 100 as it expanded its footprint in the Boston, Los Angeles and San Francisco markets.
“Year-over-year, Abacus has added 40 new clients, including firms in the United Kingdom and Sweden,” says CEO Chris Grandi (pictured), who founded Abacus in 2008. “We have also tripled our data centre capacity to meet the increasing demand for our services.”
Grandi adds that Abacus’s
A company backed by private equity firm Permira is to acquire Tricor, a provider of integrated business, corporate and investor services in Asia Pacific, from The Bank of East Asia (BEA) and NWS.
The total consideration amounts to HKD6,470 million (USD835 million), including at least HKD400 million (approximately USD50 million) in cash acquired as part of the transaction.
BEA and NWS Holdings hold 75.61 per cent and 24.39 per cent respectively, in Tricor, through East Asia Secretaries (BVI) Limited, which is Tricor's sole shareholder. Tricor’s management will become investors in Tricor alongside the Permira funds.
Founded in 2000,
MTS Health Investors, a healthcare-focused private equity fund, has closed its fourth fund, MTS Health Investors IV, with USD365 million in limited partner and general partner commitments.
The fund was oversubscribed and closed at its fundraising cap.
Senior managing director Curtis S Lane says: “We are grateful for the ongoing support of our existing investors and pleased to add a distinguished group of new investors to this fund. MTS recognises the confidence our partners have placed in us and will continue to work diligently to execute our strategy.”
Fund IV will continue MTS’s focus on investing in businesses
AREAM and Greentale Capital have established a joint venture that will leverage the combined experience of two teams in the renewable energy and investment management industries.
The joint venture will assist institutional investors to gain high-quality exposure to investment opportunities in the renewable energy industry.
Initially, the joint venture will provide specialised investment management and fundraising advisory services to a forthcoming investment vehicle, which will enable institutional investors to seize significant returns while simultaneously diversifying their portfolios by investing in the renewable energy industry.
AREAM has been investing in renewable energy for over 10 years, constructing, acquiring and
Bowmark Capital, a mid-market private equity firm, is backing the buy-out of IT solutions provider Node4 Holdings from its previous institutional investor, LDC.
Founded in Derby in 2004 by its then 23 year old chief executive Andrew Gilbert, Node4 is a provider of integrated IT solutions, hybrid infrastructure and cloud-enabled managed services to small and medium-sized businesses.
With full ownership of its own infrastructure, including three state-of-the-art data centres in Derby, Leeds and Northampton, Node4 retains full control over service delivery.
The company achieved a GBP28 million turnover in the year to March 2016 and a revenue growth
IK Investment Partners’ IK Small Cap I Fund is to acquire APOSAN Dr Künzer, a pharmaceutical homecare company in Germany.
Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
APOSAN was founded in 1991 by Dr Clemens Künzer, with the purpose to service homecare patients through the compounding of individualised infusible and injectable medication.
Since then, the company has evolved to an integrated full-range pharmaceutical homecare supplier with its own manufacturing capacities and a dedicated key account management and homecare nurses team to generate and support its growing nationwide patient base.
The APOSAN group of companies is
InfraVia Capital Partners has held the final closing of InfraVia European Fund III (InfraVia III) with total commitments of EUR1 billion.
The fund surpassed its initial target of EUR750 million.
Fund commitments were obtained from a wide range of institutional investors from Europe, North America, Asia and the Middle-East.
FIRSTavenue served as the sole global placement agent for non-French investors.
InfraVia European Fund III will focus primarily on core plus, mid-market, infrastructure with value add capabilities across a broad spectrum of infrastructure opportunities including in the transportation, energy, utilities and telecom sectors. To date, InfraVia III has
Digital content management specialist Episerver, a portfolio company of Accel-KKR, has acquired Optivo, a provider of omnichannel campaign management and customer intelligence solutions.
Leveraging Optivo’s omnichannel campaign management capabilities, Episerver customers can now create and execute more contextually relevant customer interactions across channels, ensuring that the right message is sent to the right customer when and where it should.
With the addition of Optivo, digital marketing and commerce professionals using Episerver can now manage and optimise the way customers respond to their campaigns across channels, by simultaneously tracking and predicting their behaviour. In doing so, Episerver customers can achieve
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